Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-20

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keors. Aet ne SO tina Spokane E4IIs Is
not, n1E neEzR vii IN. Eks mslfnpnlza e
Ire esumfFy-Aha fniand emrirs-be-
/ tween - Cnnezass ans fke Roskfsz.
What hss 1pckane 20 Fsoaumend 4.
ex9eps EAEniaoent un1sx pawer- and
ne ezexKy and never Rigs-lp apiris Of
lis catlxsns, whos aided By railroads..
ksep beoninE 4 Al ths tine, and who
uo1l4 pnt up their last dollar 70 p<o-
no1e fAs growth q he placs2 1rue.
10 csess preximiiy 10 fka mines has
been s01ree 81 wealth - e, and has
nl0eo is degel1pnnsut materially. Con
| pasattssls, SpskA8s b gravel bed, and
ths Rood agriczlsnEal land tributary to
| Is are very limited. 1he iixs nnen of
TIE ptses Aavs kept up boom thsrs for
k1s b2gt three years. but wafe you 80 20
there. yea .coald net Sc hous or upon
what, Is b hass1
walls Walls, on chs other hand, 10
Surrounded ~ giant aerieuIfural re-
/ sDuFees and sf1nds upan solid fcanda-
finn. Il i the natural centsK Of trade
Of vasi, rieh country. reaching from
Pendlet0n. In Eastern Oregon, to the
Snaks river IN Washington Territory.
Before any railroads we're built IN that
ns1ntry rs trade extendsd north int
lido. over 30 miles. Il waa the grand
l Distributing point far Eastern Oregon,
Washington Tertiary and Horthern
Idahos and notwithsfandinz that the
railroad companies have tried 20 kill i
| by unjust Discrimination IN freight In
favor Of Portland, By trying 10 build np
rival towns, ey enormous charges on
| freiEht both coming IN and going out,
| By high passenger tariffs, By taking eF-
erythine from the town that would tend
70 build Il np. and giving the said pat
ronAQe to some rival. it lives neTerthe-
lees, and viii, ultimately, IS Il deserves,
Be the metropolis Of that vast country
between the Cascades and the ROckies
Ast0 agricultural wealth surrounding it.
Spokane sinks into inaiRnincanee. when
compared 30 Walla Walla, surrounded
a. u Il b. the finest belt Of agricultural
lands IN the world. California has no
superiority over that country, either IN
the various cereals or in fruits, peaches.
IeFapsss etc.
True. wslIa walla IL today standing
comparatively still; but the lion before
be jumps crouehss Low, cycling his vic-
tim. So t.ust. that Cur land Of sun
shine and Walla Walla, ita center. are
only paasinR y prepare 70 make q Less
onward that will overwhelm all opposi
ton. What Seattle has reasonably
what spokane has Overwhelmingly
Walla Walla is destitute Of almost en-
tirsly; namely, live men up with ths
times. God helps him Who helps him.
self" e WelI-applied adage. Toe PEG
PIE OF Walla have been relying too much
and too long upon the merits and
the wealth Of their city and county
and have made no ekoFt 20 GENE TO thu
'front.'. ! hope, however, that experiene.
u teaching them lesson. and that bys
and bye class Of men will rise uE
there that viii ignore self and reaci
, out after every great public improve
nent aad aid in establishing indassFie'
OF ell kinds that will promote tn
growth OF their town and enhance thl
. wealth Of the whels country.
Since ! have been In this city hav
, written many letters for Eastern papers
IN praise OF the greet natural adyau
ta9ee OF Seattle ae seaport, and hav
Gated town on the North Pacific Ooas
send, OF any other place, has not thl
natural advantaees which she poasaesss
and ultimately Seattle will be city o
A~@-At sAA-N~A4 RA0NANA~@ ST. AAAE W.
neotien By rail with the rich vhea
fields of Walla WalIa and Eastern Ore
con. A shert time age the Northern
. Pacific Railroad Company asked thl
people OF Walla Walla hoW much gheai
. they would promise each year. for tn
next two years, to be shipped over thei
line, IL they would buiid branch road
20 that city, and already LOO. 600 bush
els have beea subscribed, and they hayt
not got done yet. Spokane would no
see that much wheat in ten years. w
have only 10 regret that. long ere this
, We did not have connection between
our Inland Empire city and the Queel
City Of the North Pacific. You neeG
our wheat, our fruit, eur berries
peaches, grapes and our mammoth
melons, and We need your lumber, you
GOAL, wood, fish. etc.
. AZ q Walla Wallan, am proud oil
Seattle. Like WaIla WalIa, she has no
been the faverite of railroad companies
She has been Stunned, reviled, stabse(
in the back. Bot so great are her natu
raj resources, so vide awake her people
that she grows right along, and cut
shines her rival aided and doomed b,
one Of she strongest combinations Of
capital In the world. Seattle is our sea
port, but Waila Walla is our inland cen
ter-hand in hand let these tive citie
20. and their ultimate prosperity is mos
certain. NJ +. JoNKs.